The 2010 passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) and its Section 1104 establishes a national healthcare operating rule mandate in support of the industry’s ongoing administrative simplification efforts. The first healthcare operating rule set, issued by CMS in July 2011, mandates the adoption of CAQH CORE Operating Rules for Eligibility and […]
Posts Tagged ‘hipaa’
Will Azure & Office 365 BAA’s drive faster Cloud adoption in Healthcare?
My Colleague Martin Sizemore had a great post this morning on Microsoft stepping up to the HIPAA Compliance challenge in the Cloud. In the post, which you can read here Martin talks about Microsoft’s recent announcement that support for HIPAA compliance is now avaliable for Windows Azure in addition to Office 365. From Martin’s post Microsoft […]
SharePoint as a Platform in a Highly Regulated, Clinical Research Environment
Last week, Perficient presented a webinar on using SharePoint as a platform in a highly regulated environment. Tony Egl, consulting services director and Jason Bell, consulting services senior technical director—both at Perficient—presented a case study that leverages SharePoint 2010 to bring clinical processes out of a paper environment and into an electronic, auditable environment. This provided the client the ability […]
WTX HIPAA EDI Pack – Compliance Checking
The IBM WebSphere Transformation Extender (WTX) is a universal transformation engine that can validate and transform any data, work directly in any architecture, and can be used for transformations across the enterprise. WTX supports specific industry packs such as healthcare services, which provide capabilities to perform following: Transform, validate, and enrich any data Deliver trustworthy […]
Is Cloud HIPAA Safe?
With all the benefits and buzz around the cloud, is cloud HIPAA-ready? Can the healthcare industry use the benefits of Cloud without sacrificing privacy on protected Health Information (PHI)? According to the HIPAA rule: It provides federal protections for personal health information held by covered entities and gives patients an array of rights with respect […]
IBM Websphere Transformation Extender – Power of Packs
IBM Websphere Transformation Extender (WTX) product is a powerful, transaction oriented universal data transformation and validation solution that provides flexibility to IT Systems and adapts to market changes quickly. Its codeless feature, industry packs gives powerful boost to generate complex mappings in no time. Following are the different packs provided: For Healthcare: HIPAA electronic data […]
Choosing a Clearinghouse/VAN
Choosing your clearinghouse or VAN is a very important step, especially if you are in healthcare. In healthcare you need to make sure they are HIPAA compliant, which means they will be able to handle all the mandated transaction sets. Other industries have different requirements. Whichever clearinghouse you choose, you need to make sure they […]
Creating your EDI mapping layout
In the previous blog we discussed the importance of knowing your data and business requirement needs. This is one place where that becomes important. If you already know your needs it makes it much easier to start your data mapping. First you should contact your trading partner. They should have some type of functional specs […]
The Importance of Being Earnest about Security in Healthcare, Part 2
First, let me start with questions I asked at the close of Part 1. How does your organization manage security and its risks? Do you have a governance process in place, is it comprehensive, requirements driven, with the risks communicated, understood and mitigation plans developed and reviewed? Can you adequately answer these questions? If you […]
The Importance of Being Earnest about Security in Healthcare, Part 1
In Healthcare, we talk about how important security is, all the while secretly hoping and assuming that, as an organization, we’re in compliance and have all the appropriate safeguards in place. When discussing compliance, at the very least this refers to the baseline set by the HIPAA Security Rule and the many contractual obligations we […]
Will you protect PHI or Leave Patients Naked to the World?
Intimate medical details about your health is no longer stored safely in a dusty locked file cabinet. Thanks to the HITECH Act of 2009, your private health information will end up in data files that hundreds of healthcare workers may have the ability to access. However, in early 2003 the Department of Health and Human […]
Were you ready for HIPAA 5010?
Hopefully everyone answered ‘yes’ and you had a smooth transition. In this blog we will discuss some of the items we need to keep in mind when either transitioning or implementing EDI. Whether you are getting ready to transition to a new standard or initiating EDI for the first time, remember the most important thing […]